In the last 5 years, Customer Experience experts have told companies they must delight their customers whether they use Social Media, email, phone calls, web-chat or any of the many communication methods available today. 

Customers are expecting you to know who they are regardless of the channel used and you should already know what they're about to ask, but we've learnt that the more channels you handle the more tools you need and customer data might get lost along the way. That's why we started to think about connecting all these multiple ways of communicating sharing the same data sources across any platform, even between different vendor solutions…. 

Until recently the only way to link the systems needed to achieve this ‘uniform experience’ was by replacing older independent databases, telephony, chat and associated systems that companies had grown to rely on, with one solution that covered it all. Of course this becomes a very complex project with multiple systems and workflows impacted. We found this complexity and cost was often enough to stop a push to omni-channel before it started. 

So instead Transcom have focused on removing this complexity and developed a solution that can link these legacy systems to simply allow customers to move between channels, and the systems to share the customers data and history with a universal front end for the agent. This  allows a more controlled integration of different channels and removes the need for full system replacement. By having experts in APIs, microservices, conversational ai and contact center application, we see that this can often be designed and developed within the existing contact center solution without involving traditional IT and system integrators. The timeline and effort becomes more agile and the result becomes more on the point. However, it requires the right type of skills and technology enablers.

T:Connect can connect separated contact and data systems to work as a unified solution, making connected customer journeys much more accessible. A new workflow engine sits centrally connecting applications and sharing customer data from the CRM system between them. When the customer is moved to a new channel, the new agent (either human or automated) has all the context of the query being made so no repetition is needed. T:Connect can be customised to work with virtually any vendor's communication tools, linking previously separated channels into a seamless experience.

Transcom can enable your existing internal systems to talk to each other, and also enhance your offering by bolting on any channels such as chat, social media, voice & chat bots (using natural language processing or NLP) and even internet of things. These can all be enhanced by artificial intelligence (AI) helping to automate simpler queries and transactions ensuring any human agents are only needed for the more complex tasks so increasing the value provided by more expensive resources.

Transcom believes contacts should be both seamless and effortless and come to resolution in the shortest time possible with the right result. Transcom can help you achieve this using your existing invested systems using T:Connect to create new customer journeys for better customer experiences while unified queuing and a single agent user-interface can improve the contact centres productivity. This transformation allows the Contact Centre operation to seamlessly continue while CX enhancements and operational performance are implemented in a highly focused operation and with the minimum of disruption, so seamless customer journeys can suddenly become much more achievable for any company.